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TIL that CPR does not actually save very many lives.

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oB9gR TIL that Russia was founded by a group of Scandinavian vikings and traders, called the Rus, who initially set up trading towns between their home and the Byzantine Empire.
9YaOr TIL that the final Confederate surrender of the US Civil War took place on the River Mersey, in Liverpool, England, when a Confederate warship (CSS Shenandoah) learned of the North’s victory while abroad.
QJ9aE TIL that a number of Russian PoWs were selected for extermination in The Holocaust because they had "Asiatic Features".
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